12/02/2011 - The first season in GP2 Series started in the best possible
way for Stefano Coletti who has been author of a very good performance in
the season opener of the Asia Series in Abu Dhabi.

The driver for Trident Racing Team in race one has been protagonist of a
good recovery that took him from the nineteenth place on the grid up to
the final eighth place, a result that awarded him with the first point of
the season and the pole position of race two.

The strategic choice of the team to anticipate the pit-stop has been
right and it allowed Coletti to get the most out of free-of-traffic track
free for several laps during which he managed to push to the maximum
keeping himself on very good lap-times.

The performance was perfect also in race two. At the start, Coletti got
away without hesitation and took the lead widening in the following laps
his advantage to more than a second; Stefano has never seen his
leadership questioned during the entire race and always kept a margin
from the rivals that prevented any attacks and eventually allowed him to
get the first victory of the season.

Stefano Coletti:
"It has been a great weekend from all points of view. I would like to
thank Trident for giving me a perfect car without which I could not have
managed the race always keeping a security margin and I could not have
recovered yesterday from the nineteenth up to the eighth place of race
one. All the guys have done an excellent work throughout the weekend,
from the pit-stop to the strategy, from the technical choices to the
meticulous preparation of the car. These two results confirm the value of
the work we have done during the tests and that the way we are on is the
right one. We have now just a few days before the next race during which
we will try to improve further".

Coletti is currently sixth in the classification with seven points, just
five shy the leader.